Steve Erickson

Two subsequent incidents of import established CNN: the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, which CNN was the only network to cover as it happened, and the 1991 Gulf War, which CNN chronicled round the clock from a proximity as irresistible as it was alarming, bomb blasts and gunfire lighting up TV screens from coast to coast.

American Novelist

LeBron James

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.

American Basketball Player

Travis Browne

I did protection work with dogs. I trained dogs how to protect their handlers and owners. We'd teach them bite work, how to search buildings and deal with gunfire and stuff like that. Sometimes I'd be the 'bad guy' that dogs would attack in training.

Michael D. Barnes

If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.

American Politician

Robert Crais

Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations where there's gunfire can in fact exhibit the symptoms and suffer from PTSD.

American Author

Asha Rangappa

FYI, there are basically only three things besides a vest that will stop a bullet: a tree trunk, the engine block of a car, and a U.S. mailbox: if you are ever caught in gunfire, find one of those.

American Lawyer

Elvis Mitchell

Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.

American Critic

Letitia James

Gunfire tracking technology is improving every day and has been successful in many jurisdictions around the country.

American Public Servant

Gunfire often implies a conflict, such as a battle or shootout between armed individuals or groups.

Conflict Context

Unlike 'fireworks', 'gunfire' is not used for celebration and suggests danger or aggression.

Not Celebratory

Often used in news to report on wars, terrorism, or violent events, suggesting seriousness.

News Reporting

Refers to actual bullets being fired, not to be used metaphorically for emphasis or effect.

Literal Bullets

Suggests a real risk of injury or death from being shot.

Physical Danger

Can describe a situation involving police or military using their weapons.

Law Enforcement

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The sound the universe...

 open when the door flew open he's trying to start shooting and the deputies had to return fire to save their own lives and to to protect their federal deputies that was a random despite the gunfire the raid is a success they have both suspects in custody and no one was injured

Shots Fired PIPE Kentucky...

 My grandmother tells me that she heard the sound of gunfire along with my first cries. When I was growing up, I was told a story that explained all I ever needed to know about humanity. It went like this. All human societies develop in linear progression,

Eric X. Li: A tale of...

 even in the summertime, because of the violence. You would listen in the neighborhoods on any given night, and to the untrained ear, it sounded like fireworks, but it was gunfire. You'd hear it almost every night, when you were cooking dinner,

Jeffrey Brown: How we...

 Light would be dragged down the hole as everything else would be, and all that would be left would be a shadow. Now he wrote to Einstein, and he said, "As you will see, the war has been kind to me enough. Despite the heavy gunfire,

 only that bullets found at the crime scene were fired from the weapons but the rate of fire was so fast it would have been impossible for any of the victims to turn react to the gunfire and try to protect themselves

Gangster Gunplay PIPE...

 pants off you or was to break your heart the second thing that I came across was gunfire as camp fire so if anybody has sat in front of a campfire you've had the experience mesmerizing flames

How we think about death...

 and all of a sudden we woke up to this gunfire with Marshall shooting his gun off into the dark I know he's got a reason there's something going on and we need to be ready to help him out you

Creatures in the Dark PIPE...

 officers are stunned to hear automatic gunfire and fear a civilian massacre patrol cars raced to the scene to protect the public police swarm a perimeter positioned at the northern

Shootout in the Streets...

 of an exploded missile, so bright that nothing can protect your eyes from it. I grew up with the sounds of war -- the staccato sounds of gunfire,